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© RRICE OF A SOUL: ay 

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Torre isa buyer in the markets of the world 


whose nume j6 never in the newspapers, and 
whose bids are never in. the prices urrent.—§ 
Nevertheless, hig besinces is. widely extended; 
) and eartied on, with Scprelets activity. He chaft 
+ fers in the sopen street. Le walks boldly Le 
i “Change.” » He glides into the dimxess of th 
es eounting- house. Hee eps into sthe wapeMbie: 
He goes dat upon the ihim. He is, most spe- 
“cessful-at the theatre, the tevern, the rac Ge- COULTER, 
vang the ballroom), ie is the dimer af snl, 
» Be ‘as various prices in his duensd fiat ireffie. 
rote, bourhqone stil for ¢ rei pieces cof siiver. 
He Can bought seme for le-s. “Butder a Jarger 
pieo—lor he eaps of weld, to ihe pavd bt “ter in 
oy ns. eves. or for fame and. g ley pics ures, 
ie how miaity have, bartered . aay 4 BS Renee: 
co a) ee me Fs 
Patan Hare is the histery, af one ete: ws this 
fi in |. Some years since. the writer sit uv the 
~ ymie at EY large eoligresation, gathered mm ® 
oue- “of tha ¢ eastern counties ot Peon- 
lt was the middle of th pe bat. 


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be Boirit of God « was upon the “hearts of toe. 
eb te, aud they same willingly to the house of 
tod Ipwasasolemn place. Without the walls | 
Sachureh there waved an ancient forest, 
and ard ei the dust of our fathers slept. 
Within, vm bn a Gist was workin: « fun- 
i of the 


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soi. Theservant of Urrish closed oe aa 


owing narra ions. 

ears ago, t! nore wae liv ne ia one of 
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ier of Ww wealthy atl wor! “idly ¥ parents “She ae 
fond of the gay plessurch of the eity, and plung- 
od into theta Megs 1 the eagernessof youth Her 
guyeby, youth, and weall th, were sure passporté 
-o the highést ¢ireles ot fashion, and thera sho 
lived and moved and triffed as though there. i 
were 10) other’ world, | ae 
l@ghus living in pleasure she was invi 
one everfng, by a friend, to ace vmpany her 
the weekly prayer mecting ina elurch o 
cay. There -it pleased God to visit her wit 
the influences’ of bis ep irit. She was conyi 
ed of sin, and tetnric to her home in docp 
row. Her heavin eqs of spirit Was soon)” 


ered, and her worldly pare ents were in of 
vf it ; at Yet: sed 


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nation lest their beautifw) daughter should leave 
the world of fashion for the service of God.— 
They besought her and commanded her te re- 
turn te the circles in ehinp she had fermeriy 
shone. ‘hey xurrounded her with “gay friends. 
Yet. she was silk stricken in hoart, and refused 
to be eumfurted. " At last they succeeded in 
bribing her to attend a large party of preasure, 
‘by the ciftof the richest dress which could be 
purchased in the city. She reluctantly consen- 
ted to their request, went to the festival, and. 


‘peturned without one trace of her religious etho- 


‘tions. a 
Jn a few weeks after, that daughter wak ly- 
ing at the point of death. Skillfal physicians 
-were around her, but they cou!d only tell her 
dismayed parents that “there was no hope.’— 

Whea’ this opinion was made known to the Bis 


ing girl, she lay for a few minutes in perfect 


silence. ‘Yhen rousing herself, she ordered a 
seryant to bring her that dress and hang it up- 
on the post of ‘her bed. She then sent for her 
father and mother. Tn a few moments they 
stood weeping by her side She looked upon 
then litting up her 
, and pomting to the 83 aid to each of 
grea and with Re: tenr ible cahniess 


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of despair, “Father, mother, there ts the price of * 
my soul.” In a few hours she knew the full 
value of that which she had lost. There are 
lessons taught by this mournful story, to which 
we do weil if we take heed. 

1, It warns us against the terrible sin of tam- 
pering with the soul that ts under the influence of 
the Spirtt of God. Some men do this dolib- 
erately, and of purpose. They strive to defeat 
the merciful purposes of the Holy Ghost. They 
sneer at the wholesome fears of the sinner, as 
the imaginary troubles of a coward:  Partaking 
of the malicious eraft of the devil their master, 
they perplex the inquirer with sophisms, and 
thus fll his mind with doubts 5 or they lure 
him back to the world, by cunning temptations 
to open sin. Like some men of ‘our Saviour’s 
day, they neither go into the kingdom them- 
selves, nor “do they suffer those who are enter- 
ing.to goin. Surely when such men are con- 
deimned by God, all others must say Amen, and 
acknowledge that their “damnation is just.” 

It is to be hoped, however, that the Hine 
majority of the men, who arc educated under 
the light of the gospel, wonld not commit this 
sin intentionally, and of “malice aforethought.” _ 
Kiven when careless concerning their own souls, ts 


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and willing to barter them away for that which 
is vanity anda cheat, they woujd not choose to 
occupy the place of the parents in the foregoing 
narrative. They do not covet, they rather 
shrink from the agony those parents mus have 
felt, when they looked upon their dying child, 
They donot wish to go to the judgment with 
the stain of another’s ‘blood upon their garmenis. 
They would not willingly “increase the diffieul- 
ties of the struggling soul. 
Yet are they, in eflect, upon the side of the 
avowed and pious opposers of God’s Spirit. If 
not for Christ, they are against him. If net 
co-workes with God, they are co-workers with 
Satan. Their example and their influence can 
have but-one result. They can lead men only 
in the way they walk themselves, and their path- 
_ way leads directly to the pit. - Jiet all such hear 
this warning, and beware bow they set them- 
vic es against the Holy Spirit’ 

We are warned avainst the sia of gr reving 
ae Holy Ghost. This was the $in of the daugh- 
ter. Her parents tempted, and she yielded — 
They offered and she accepted the seducing gift. 
It is possible that the father and mother may 
not have beeh aware of the greatness of their 
sin. They may have done it “ignorantly, in 


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unbelief.” Bat the danghter hada quickened @ 
conscience. She was under the influence of the 
Holy Ghost. ® She had convictions: of sin, and. 
solemn impr ogsion us of duty. Tn Bi sass what 
she did; s she acted in direct oppasts jon to the 
enzspimpus of conseionee and of God’s Spirit. 
She took the sutal buibe, and west where it was 
pane conscience might again be stupefied, and 7 
the Spirit banished from her heart, : 
Can the ham-n sont commat amore Caring 
transcression, after it has been enlightened from: 
on hi: zh, than voluntarily to retarn to.the world 
and sin? Can there be a more presumptuous 
offence, than deliberately to clore the eyes,and | 
plunyvs into fresh guilh? Next to the gift ef” 
his Son, the gift of his Holy Spirit is the best — 
blessing God has to bestow upoa guilty man.+— | 
Is it not, then, the crowning aca of all wicked- — 
Ness, fen: owingly and will ully- to resist this Spir- | 
it? And if men will resist such mercies, who | 
shal] say anght against the Sata of the pun- | 
ishmeni, when the despicers “wonder and an Bi 
ish ? 7’ ai 
3. Poader now, solemnly and deeply, a ques- Wp 
tion which is addressed to you in allearnestmess — 
and singerity: Have you not jolt the strivings 
mes od’ Aa ko oie b, and hae Je 4 bi bie at PEStstad 


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Wave you never seen a hand which “rointed to 
the coining wrath ?’* Have you never beard a 
voice which “warned you frei that wrath*to 
flee 7% Aud did you not forget these selemn 
warnings? .Oan you sot look tack upon a 
season, still well remembered/ind yisible yet in 
the waste of misspent ycars—a season in which 
the linportgnce of this world manifcetly dwin- 
died, and your soul was brought under the pow- 
| er of the world to come—when truth stood on 
before you inno equivocal light, and duty lay 
before you as clear!y as if traced by a sunbetm ? 
Flas not thelaw of God distinctly uttered its 
~ terrible threatnings? fave not cvavictions of 
_ sin darkened and disturbed all your thoughts 7 
Inu the silence of the nicht, or in the glare and 
 basiness of the day, and even in the haunts of 
» revelry and erime,*have you not heard peal af- 
\ ter peal from.Sinai, which made your sou! trem- 
« die and fear? 
If there has been sucha season, what has 
been its result? What has been the effect oi 
that eritical period in your history? Did i¢ 
- deave yuu penitent.and-humble at the foot: the 
cross?, Or did it leave you with ahardor heart, 
and amore sdered conscience, toe await in indif- 


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- this is the ease, ponder one qnesior 

- Spirit, you have grieved is ity au 
that despised Moses’ law, dicd x 
under two or three witteanes ; j of he ; 
rey punishment, suppose ye, shah Phe bo 
wortliy, whohath trodden URder Poot. th 
yor Cod, and hath: counted the blgod of th 
oat wherewith he was sanctified, anon 

th ag, and hath done de: spite unto. the Sp 
gravee” What must that pubishment 
which is “gorer” than. “eying withous merey 

. Whatever it may be, it’ will be the portion of 
te eet “3 God’s ai pane! A he 


